Dashing villain Barry Switzer and his Sooners ran up against ramrod-straight Tom Osborne and an undivided nation of Cornhuskers as Oklahoma and Nebraska wrestled yearly over the Big Eight Conference title and, often, the nation's top ranking.

There is Jack on a Saturday, the ramrod-straight signal caller in black high-tops, tossing the pigskin to Bobby, the gutsy little receiver circling toward a reception in his Bermuda shorts and polo shirt.